In May 2018, DLBP worked on another successful appeal against a decision to refuse a major housing scheme, our second success in a year. Please see the link to the appeal decision, and the coverage in the Planner, here: https://www.theplanner.co.uk/decision/appeal-green-light-for-‘speculative’-350-home-gloucestershire-scheme.
Working with Mark Lowe QC, Julian Cooper of SLR and Graeme Phillips of JTP, our team put forward the argument that this was yet another example of a Council seeking to fight off a good quality, sustainable development when it has an urgent need to provide new homes, or, as Mark Lowe QC put it, expressing “an inarticulate snarl” against speculative development.
The people of South Gloucestershire will now benefit from 350 new homes, including 123 affordable homes, bringing economic benefits to the town of Thornbury. The inspector gave particular weight to the provision of affordable homes “which would help promote a balanced community as sought by the Framework”.
At DLBP, we believe in fighting hard for the right development in the right places, and so we are delighted that, with our excellent team, we have contributed to yet another successful development.
